001Good evening everyone. With the time being six o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025, I will call this meeting of the Webster School Committee to order and ask that we stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy and justice for all. So, the first item on our agenda this evening is the discussion and approval of the minutes from our meeting that was held on May 27th, 2025. Any discussion around those minutes? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve them. So, move. Second. There's a motion in a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Members, yes. Yes. Motion passes. And the next item in the agenda is a superintendence report. Good evening, Mrs. Pangi. Good evening, everyone. Uh, I'd
002like to start tonight by talking about personnel. Um, we have the first item is retirements. We have no new retirement announcements at this time. Uh, I am happy to announce we have a new hire. We hired an assistant principal at Webster Middle School at David Moreno. Mr. Mareno comes to us from Boston Public Schools. um he is moving out this way. Uh happy to say that he will be starting on Monday, June 30th, and we are excited to have him on board and a part of the Webster Middle School team. Um moving on, we have resignations. Uh we have a resignation of Jennifer Bergen, a special ed teacher at Park AB Elementary, and David Bof, an ELELLL teacher at Webster Middle School. And we have no transfers at this time. As you can see down
003below, those are anticipated openings. We have some movement and it's going to be that time of year where it starts to happen. Um, so we will stay on top of staffing and make sure you have updated lists at um, the school committee so you are aware of the movement that is going on within the district. Are there any questions? No. Okay. under management and operations. Uh we are quickly closing out the school year and it's as we're closing out one year, we are definitely opening up a new year. Uh we have our full admin meeting close out um at the end of the year on June 24th. We'll spend a day looking at the close out um and updating some things for the end of year. And then we're going to start to take a
004look at um the new year coming up um and see what adjustments we need to make as we enter into prepping for our new year. Um moving on to financials. As you know, our budget was approved at town meeting. Um we have now worked to enter our budget into our financial system that was updated so we can now start to enter purchase orders against next year. Um, as you know, um, times are tight and this is going to be a year where we're going to have to really closely monitor, um, our budgets and know what we have. We're going to have to be very selective with our staff hirings, making sure we're staying within our budgeted, um, salary amounts that we have in there. So, uh, we've had a lot of flexibility over the past
005with, um, different grants and funding. Um but unfortunately uh those times um have come to an end. So we really just need to be um all of us um we've had this discussion with the principles um that uh budgeting is going to have to be one of our top priorities and it's something that we're going to have to stay very on top of um as we move into next f school year making sure we're monitoring closely. Um, it's also the time of year we're looking at our grants, um, closing out any 24 grants that we might have had. Uh, as you know, our special ed grants and our title one grants, um, they run for a 27-month cycle. Um, so making sure that we're really finishing up our 24 grants, um, managing our 25s and
006we're beginning to look at our 26 grants. I know we're applying. We've applied already for a couple of 26 grants. Um over the summer, we usually submit our title one and our special ed. So, uh we are monitoring everything closely, making sure we have solid structures in place that um we're always keeping an eye on where we're at. Um now more than ever, it's important to be in touch and stay tuned um to where our grants are going. Are there any questions about grants or budget? No. Uh maintenance. Uh it's also the time of year. We had a couple projects that were approved at town meeting. Uh one of them is to do the tennis courts and another one is to do the basketball courts. Those are t typically summer projects that will be happening.
007Um it's also a time where our custodians uh start moving through our buildings, cleaning everything, emptying out rooms. Um, so it's usually uh when everybody's winding down, the guys are winding up um getting ready um to make sure we've got our buildings clean, we've got our projects done and everything's in shape um and we're ready to start the new year. So, we're working on that. And then um in negotiations, I'm happy to say that we've worked through three of our five contracts. Um we're going to be reviewing them later this evening. Um, but it we're on a positive path. So, I'm happy um to report on that. Are there any questions for management and operations? No. All right. Moving on to other updates. Uh, I attended the Southern Worester County Educational Collaborative graduation on Wednesday,
008June 4th, um, with our director of special education at the Sturbis Host. Uh, we had two students graduate. It was a wonderful night. I'd like to gra uh congratulate Damen Adams and Julia Castanina Gia. Um it was really a nice event. They had I believe nine graduates at the collaborative. Um they had an opportunity for a staff member to get up and speak about each graduate which was really nice. Um and it was great to see the kids in action and so proud and it was nice to visit with them and speak to the families after. So, I just want to give them a shout out and a congratulations. On Thursday, June 5th, we got to celebrate our graduating seniors um here at Indian Ranch. It was a hot but beautiful evening. Um I think
009the night went off uh pretty well. Went off great. Um we'll have some every graduation that we hold at Indian Ranch, I take that as a moment to learn something new to see what we can do differently the next year and how we can improve. Um, but I think it's a wonderful place to hold the event and I wanted to congratulate all of our seniors and I wanted to thank the high school Miss Neves and her team um for all the work that they do especially shouting out um the secretary Ally who puts in a lot of time and effort preparing everything and making sure that um they have everything in order. There's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to make sure everything goes smoothly. Um, and I also want to
010thank the custodians for their help in setting up and supporting and Mr. Peter Carney for the music and the time he puts in there. So, um, I appreciate all the efforts that everybody puts in. And then, as you know, there have been, this is the time of year there is almost something going on every night, um, around the district. Uh there's from concerts to field days, um best buddy ceremonies, senior awards, graduations, um all kinds of things happening. It's wonderful to see all the celebrations and the smiles, to hear the concerts. Um and it's just a pleasure to see all the activity around the schools as we wind down now in the past few days. Um and then I did mention Best Buddies. Um I do have a few pictures that I want to share.
011Um, this year I had to miss the Grads on Parade. Um, which is the first one I've missed since its inception. Um, but I can say that I missed it for a wonderful event. Um, MAPF free hosted their Best Buddy celebration at Mapree in in um insurance. It was just uh a wonderful heartwarming event to see our students really shine who are participating in the Best Buddy. Um, four of our students were celebrated for their accomplishments and I'm going to show some pictures of our students. Um, Best Buddies, they have MAP free has students who work with them in different departments. Um, so this is the teacher. Um, oh my god, I'm drawing a blank on her name and I know her name. Um, of course I know her name. I just talked to her.
012It'll come to me. I'll keep going. Um but uh Desmond, this is an award that Desmond, one of our students, received that he couldn't be there. Um so she accepted the award. Um Yvon, thank you, Yvon Lambert. She accepted the award on behalf of the student, Desmond. Um you can see Josiah Espino. Um he received an award. Josiah was actually uh speaking at the beginning of the night. They showed a video of him talking. Um Matt Free put something together and about what this internship means for him at Best Buddy. Um these are students from our life skills rooms that go and do work at Mattfrey. He works with the IT his coaches in IT and um I was literally in tears when he was speaking. uh he spoke about how important it felt for
013him to be there and to have a real job and he felt like he was part and he was doing something that he loved and he just belonged doing and this was his happy place going here. Um when they show up on Wednesdays they dress up, they're professional, they go into work. Um they have tasks that they need to do. He worked on I believe he finished up to a hundred computers installing operating systems um for staff that they use Google systems that they use on a regular basis and he just beamed when he talked about um the work that he did there. Uh it was just wonderful to see. Um this is Kuow. He worked at at the um I believe in the custodial unit with another uh with the head custodian. um and
014his job was to go around and help and work and clean up the building and take care of things. So, he received an award. And then we had Leonette. Uh Leonette was working um in with in the office areas. She had uh tasked to this is her second year working at Best Buddies. Um last year she worked um working on folding and stuffing envelopes, getting 50 envelopes ready for mailings and taking care of things. Um this year they set a goal for her um to complete a hundred to see if she could do a hundred and she made her goal. She completed a hundred. Um so these are envelopes and mailings that are absolutely going out to people. So this is her award and then this was her um mentor, her coach um that supported
015her um in in um her work there at Mount Freya Insurance. Um I would like to say Leonette was also um voted uh intern of the year. So she um not only got the award, but she was got the honorable um intern of the year award overall. So she did a great job. And then these are our students uh with their coaches who supported them during their time the whole group of students. Um we had other schools that were represented there. I know Oxford and Sutton were there um all with their partners, their best buddies that they worked with during the year. So, it was just um a great exciting um morning and I look forward to being there again next year and celebrating our students and I just wanted to congratulate them and I
016wanted to thank uh MPFrey uh for the work that they do. Uh as much as we enjoy our seeing our students there, they enjoy having our students just as much and looking them shine. and they've actually um had some students who were in the best buddy program become employees there after who have jobs who are doing well who are successful there. So um I just wanted to congratulate all our students and share that and that concludes my report. Thank you Mrs. Pangley. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the committee? There's clearly a lot going on. Um, and it's continually I'm continually impressed at your ability to be at just about everything. I try to be. So, really appreciate the updates. Um, if there's no other comments or questions from Mrs. Pangeli, our next item
017on the agenda is our principal report. And, uh, joining us this evening from Webster Middle School is Miss Peterson. Good evening, everybody. Um, I'm going to start by uh updating you on our seventh and eighth grade band and chorus. They attended a competition on May 30th and um came home with a I want to make sure I get this right for each of them. The chorus earned a gold medal and the um band won a silver medal. So what happens is they go and they perform in front of um judges, other um music educators and they are scored on different aspects of their performance. Um and then the group uh is given a clinic. So the chorus is given a clinic by um a professional and the band is given a clinic. So they get
018tips and um ways to perform better. uh some feedback working with the one of the adjudicators and so they got written feedback as well. Um and then they earned their medals at the uh at the event and then part of them going to the competition is they are out in the western part of the state. So they also get to go to Six Flags um after their performance. So, um, wanted to update you on MCCAST, even though we don't have scores. Obviously, we don't get those until the fall. Um, but I did want to let you know that the middle school has finally completed MCCAST after testing at the from the end of March to the end of May. Um as you know the middle school hosting four grades tests all four grades in um
019two subjects for all four grades and uh eighth grade tests in all four subjects and grade five tests in three subjects. So um what I can share with you tonight is our percentage completion um which uh is really amazing this year. Uh, unfortunately the the website that I got this information from for some reason didn't show English. Um, which is odd because that's the first test we take. But so they showed ma I'm going to share math, science, and um, civics with you. So um, in math we had grade five a 97% participation rate. In grade six, 99% in grade seven 96% and in grade eight 99%. In science, our percentage participation was a little bit lower because uh unfortunately the test window for math and science is the same. And so the makeup time
020period is is basically shorter because you're trying to make up two tests for for those who are absent are making up four sessions of a test. So unfortunately grade five was only 85% participation and grade 88% participation. Um in civics grade 8 uh was 99% participation. And even though it's the it's not on our on the chart on the website, I do know that our English based on the the data that I looked at before I was closed out of everything. Um we were in the 95 to 99 percentile in English in all four grades as well. Um in grade five it was definitely 99%. So, um that helps uh as you know, but those of you at home may not know that our percentage participation does count toward our overall scores in terms of
021being a turnaround district. Um so that is really important that we have such high uh participation rates. um questions about that as I know the data is a little um just go ahead. Is there I know that the uh testing windows are determined not by us, right? Is there a way for us to remedy the uh math and science situation for next year so we can increase our participation with the makeups? Um I have to look at a few things. The difficult part is uh one of the reasons our testing takes so long is because um we have so many small groups and onetoone testing that I cannot test the whole school on the same day where other districts can do that. We cannot I don't have the staff and I don't have the space
022to make that happen. Luckily this year we were able to um do seventh and eighth grade testing on the same day. our eighth grade class did not have um very many small groups and onetoone. So I was able to combine those. Um so as we continue to review IEPs and look at the needs of our students that could change next year, but that is that is our main problem with with being able to consolidate a little bit better. I see. Thank you. Um, the next thing I wanted to talk about tonight, well, I'm not going to talk about it. Our guest is going to talk about it. Um, we have Amamira Sadiki here tonight from uh our eighth grade class and she has been our project 351 representative this year. Um, she will tell you
023about project 351, but I do want to point out u about how our project 351s are chosen in the in Webster. Um, what happens is every year I get a email from Project 351 and then I let the staff know that I'm accepting nominations and so the entire staff since uh all of them know our eighth graders are allowed to send me names and reasons why they feel the student should be nominated. Um from there I take that list and I send um to each student an invitation to uh the student and the parents so that they know that they have been nominated. An invitation to write an essay uh that would that exemplifies the um the major factors of project 351 and why they're interested and why they why they think that they should
024be chosen. From there, I take the essays and um we don't look at the names and I have a team uh of staff read the essays. Uh so they then they choose the best candidate based on the essays. So they don't know who's whose essays they are reading. Um and then they make the recommendations to me. So, um, congratulations to Amamira for being chosen and she is going to share a slideshow and talk to you about project 351. So, so Project 351 is a youthled service that transforms communities, elevates kindness, and advances opportunity by investing in the compassion and unlimited capabilities of eighth grade unsung heroes and quiet leaders. On launch day, we were able to impact 34,595 lives. And launch day was when we participated in service projects and developed leadership skills. There were
025many different stations, including wellness kits for veterans, nurturing stations for families struggling to buy food during the California wildfires, and hygiene kits for students in need. For our spring service project, we worked with Cradles to Crayons, which is an organization that works to help end clothing insecurity. Um, I worked with the NJHS to help me complete the service and we were able to collect 17 bags of clothing. 15 of them going to cradles to crayons and the other two were not able to be given so they went to the Salvation Army. Um, reunion was just on June 7th and we continued our community building. Um, reuniting at Gillette Stadium to learn more about service and leadership from people including Lisa Hughes from WBZ News and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll. Um, the Project 351 alumni broke
026us up into breakout rooms to help us find our direction and help us figure out who we are and how we can work better with our peers. On reunion day, we were able to impact 20,85 lives. This year we were able to impact 86,688 lives. And in the 15 years since 2011, we were able to impact um 1.4 million lives. And so, um, Amamira has a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. here. And so, that is, um, one of the the people that is often focused on when project 351 um, convenes. And so, as you can see from her slideshow, they have met um, since January on a monthly basis and more than that. um starting with uh Zooms, Zoom calls and check-ins um and then their their reunions and and gettogethers. So, it's
027just a fabulous uh thing that the the state does uh representing 351 of our towns and cities uh with an eighth grade representative from every every town and city and just um getting the chance for these young people to meet other people who are like-minded and uh ready to serve and these are our future leaders. So, something that Amamira said at the beginning is these are our quiet leaders. um that you know Amamir is somebody who is uh at everything. She's part of NJHS. She's part of student council. She's in the band. She's in the chorus. Um she's always willing to help and jump in whenever anything is needed. Um and so and she's uh definitely not a boastful person. Um but I, you know, would like to make sure she gets recognition for all
028that she does. So thank you Amamira for sharing. Congratulations. Can I ask a question? So if you had to give advice to somebody else coming in or wanting to participate, what have you gotten out of this and what advice could you give somebody coming in? Um no matter your age or like your abilities, you can still make a change. Good advice to the chair. Member Adamopoulos. I just want to say thank you for putting together the slideshow. Um saw a lot I knew about the project, so it was good to kind of get that basic underground to it. Um my question is just about the spring service project you did. So is that something you brought to NJHS or was that already in place? Because it was great to see that there's two different groups
029that kind of have some, you know, overlap in them. I'm just wondering if you brought that back to National Junior Honor Society kind of got that from a project. Yeah. So, it's like an individual kind of project, but if you have multiple ambassadors at your school, you can like do it with them. But since we only had one so that I could be able to get more bags of clothing, I um like worked with the NJHS so that we could like get it out there more. I just think that's a that was a great step on your part. Um, and maybe going forward, you know, the next ambassador can work not only with the middle school, but maybe the high school too for some of these projects. Um, because it's clear that, you know, it's
030really making a difference in a lot of people's lives. So, I just want to really thank you for all the time you put into it this year. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from the committee? It's always nice to see um things happening in Webster where um we have someone who represents all the good things in Webster and it's even more special as a parent to be able to watch you um do this. So um I'm excited to see where you go from here and uh really proud of you. Thanks. Thank you for being such a good role model for Webster. Thank you. Thank you. All right. If there's no other questions or comments for Amamira or for Miss Peterson, we'll move on. Anything else from the committee? No. All right. Thank you, Miss
031Peterson. Um, the next item on the agenda under old business is a monthly report on fundraising applications. There are a number of uh fundraising activities that have been going on. Just as a reminder, it's the role of the school committee to review fundraising activities, but we don't approve them. They're approved at the building level. Uh I think there's there's a lot maybe more than we want to go through individually, but um many of these have have essentially taken place already um from I will say the dodgeball tournament was cancelled because they didn't have interest from Oh, yeah. Sorry to hear that, but we've got Active Minds and PBI uh the PBIS was the dodgeball tournament. Um grid iron club, Bartlett football, um freshman class. Uh are we going to be Mrs. Pangley? Do you know
032if the um is this the Papagino's fundraiser? Uh will that be happening on the last day of school? Do you know? I believe it will. Yes. Oh, good. Yep. That's good to get out there. So on the last day of school on the 18th, if folks go to Papagino's, the portion of the proceeds will be donated. In fact, 20% of the sales will be donated back to the Bartlett freshman class of uh 2028. So get out there and have your pizza on the 18th. And the next item on the agenda under old business is the superintendence evaluation. So, um, as a district leader, Mrs. Pangeli has the unique, um, experience of being evaluated publicly on an annual basis, which, um, not many of us have have had that before. Um, so I just want to
033acknowledge that, you know, it can be um, uncomfortable maybe or challenging to to have this experience. Uh and before I begin, I will say that um at least from my perspective, this has been a very successful year and I hope that the evaluation does justice to the hard work that you've put in during this year. Um we're really thankful to be working with you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh so just as an overview of this evaluation tool, which I don't know anyone that's a big fan of this tool, um but this is the tool that we have available to us and this is what we're working with. So first I will say that um we have a the step one is to assess progress toward specific um goal areas which are the professional practice goals,
034student learning goals and district improvement goals. So I'll talk about ratings there and then throughout the rest of this document there are a number of other areas. I won't I won't go into every area individually, but as far as step one with regard to professional practice goals, all of the committee members uh or we have only four committee members, by the way, evaluating Mrs. Pangley this year, member calleros just joined the committee. Um and member Ble is already off the committee. So, so that's why we're five of us sitting here and and four evaluators. So with that being said, the professional practice goals, all four of the committee members uh completing this evaluation rated Mrs. Pangi as having met those goals. Uh with regard to student learning goals, we had one member rate Mrs. Pangi
035as having made significant progress and three as having met. And finally, under district improvement goals, we have one member rating Mrs. frangley as having made significant progress on those goals and three as having met that those goals. Uh and with regard to student learning and district improvement, um it's at least my perspective that those are those are goals that are constantly being worked at and constantly uh needing to be worked on particularly in a turnaround district. So it wouldn't be surprising even for for a superintendent in this uh district to be rated as having made some progress but that wasn't the case here. We had um one for each for significant progress and the other three is having met. So kudos to you Mrs. Pangeli there. Um then the next area is an overview uh
036of four different areas. So this is sort of summitative ratings of these four areas uh instructional leadership, management and operations, family and community engagement and professional culture. So the possible ratings on those areas are unsatisfactory, needs improvement, proficient and exemplary. For the first standard, instructional leadership, all four of the evaluator evaluators rated Mrs. Panguli as proficient. Under standard two, management and operations, one member rated Mrs. Pangi as proficient and three rated her as exemplary. Under family and community engagement, all four evaluators rated Mrs. Pangi as proficient and the same for professional culture for ratings of proficient. So now moving on here we have a summitive rating which could be either unsatisfactory, needs improvement, proficient or exemplary and all four of the evaluators rated Mrs. Panguli as proficient. Uh and then there are evaluator comments that
037are available um throughout many of the next areas. So I I'll just pretty much every committee member or evaluator left a comment in most or all areas. I won't read every comment from every area. I'm just going to pick comments u from each area so that uh there's representative uh feedback. So under the first section, one of the comments is it is evident through the data and reports presented at school committee and observations made by attending district-wide events that superintendent Pangeli has met her goals in the areas of instructional leadership, management and operations and family and community engagement and professional culture. So uh moving on here, let's see here um under instructional leadership. So again, these are the standards. Uh, all four evaluators rated Mrs. Pangeli as having met her goal. Under management and operations,
038we had two ratings of met and one of ex uh, excuse me, two of exceeded. Under management and operations, we had one rating of met and three ratings of exceeded. Under family and community engagement, we had one rating of significant progress and three ratings of met. And under professional culture, uh, all four evaluators rated Mrs. Pangi as having met that goal. I won't dig in to every, uh, rating within the, um, the standards because there's a lot of them, but I will share uh, additional comments. So the next section under uh instructional leadership one of the comments said datadriven approach to identify gaps to move forward have been implemented. Focus on year-over-year declines in dropout rate and absenteeism has directly led to increases in educational categories. Continues to demonstrate a consistent message and goal oriented
039approach to instruction. Under the next category, management and operations. Once again, I won't unpack every rating for every individual uh section there. Uh but I will share comments. Um and let's see here. Uh Mrs. successfully navigated and led the district through a difficult budget season. Maintained a focused approach to ensure that student learning was the main focus on budget decisions, demonstrated leadership during collective bargaining meetings and discussions while balancing teacher needs, future budgetary projections and student learning objectives. And the next area under family and community engagement uh a comment was the superintendent continues open and collaborative communication with staff, students and families. She uses all resources available to form effective partnerships with stakeholders that support our schools. And then finally under uh professional culture again lots of uh ratings here and one of the comments
040includes Mrs. Panguli conducts herself in a fair and professional manner. Her strong skills at managing challenging situations and differences of opinion are a key component of the culture here in Webster. Continued work at ensuring professional development offerings meet educator needs through feedback and data collection will keep the district on a successful path. On the whole, uh, I would say that this is, um, this has been once once again a very successful year for you, Mrs. Pringley, as a new superintendent. I know um, not so new, but still a bit new. Um, but I think that the the evaluation speaks for itself in that the committee is pleased with how things are going and where we're headed. Um, and I'll open it up to the committee for any additional comments or anything that you really wanted
041to be included here that I didn't read out. Um, please feel free to include that if you'd like. I'll just through the chair, members. Grievia. No, I'll just say, you know, being an educator, it's refreshing to be a part of a school committee that supports a district and supports you where you're such a um presence um in the schools and in the events. Um, I go to a lot of events myself with my family and I've always see you there and that's so refreshing to see your um, support and just love for the Webster school system. So, thank you and I wish you luck next year and the years to come. Thank you. Thank you, members. Greg Maya, the chair, member Adamopoulos. Um, I I'll kind of piggyback on that. I think there's been a
042lot of comments I've heard about your presence at after school events, but also that your present in each school during the school year um and your faces out there and the teachers are seeing you, more importantly, the students are seeing you and they know who you are. Um and I think that's been a refreshing kind of change. Um and also that the perception of central office I think with a lot of our stakeholders has drastically changed and has been comments about the fact that it is now um a type a different type of field dealing with central office. Um that improvement I think has made things u much easier to deal with other stakeholders. So I think those are very big changes that are going to have long-term ramifications moving forward. So thank you for
043that. Thank you. Agree. Thank you, Mr. Any other comments? Member Millet through the chair. I have to say what I respect and admire is your connection to the whole community and we've talked about you definitely have a connection to our school community but you also do with town management to police to fire to the library to all our local organizations and that is so so important. Um, and I think because you have that and I'll piggyback on member Adamopolis and saying that there definitely is a different field. There's a different field in our school community of teamwork and everybody's in it together. And if there's a problem, everybody's going to help solve it together. And I certainly appreciate that. And I know it's going to be going to be the start of a difficult year,
044but I have every confidence because of this team building that you have done that we're going to we can get through anything. Thank you. That is my one big hope. I hope if that's always what I wanted for this school community and for the town. It's not one person can do this work. It's going to take all of us to do the work. Everybody. Everybody from our crossing guards. We we all reflect the image of Webster Public School and our Webster community in every role that we do. So, um there we are all equals. We're all on the same playing field. And if we all do our jobs and if we're all equal partners in our work, um great things will happen. I know they will. Um, we just have to stay the course. We
045have to keep working on improving. Uh, I believe slow and steady wins the race. Sometimes I'm frustrated that things can't move fast enough. Um, but we can't lose that sense of urgency, but we have to respect the work that we're doing every day. There is a lot of work going on in this district and a lot of hard work. Um, and I don't want I don't want our staff to have to work harder. Let's just be smarter and work together and things will happen, things will change. Um, one of my favorite things to do here is be a part of this community and see the kids and that reminds me of why I am here every day. Nothing makes me happier than going into a school and seeing seeing the kids and and having those
046relationships. Um, and I I just feel blessed that I can do that. I do love this community and I hope to be here for many years and um and I also appreciate your support because it can't happen without your support. This work can't happen. Um I won't always get everything right, but it won't be for a lack of effort or a lack of working hard. So, um so I appreciate your patience, your support. Um and I, you know, hope to continue to grow as a superintendent to learn and to take in the feedback because I think that's important. we all have to hear and be aware of what's going on around us so we can grow from that. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a leader that um I'm proud to work
047with. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is uh we will be entering uh we'll entertain a motion to enter into executive session in accordance with Mass General law 30A section 21A to discuss strategy for negotiations with union personnel specifically the WA unit B and the custodians move second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes and we will reconvene in open session simply to sign uh warrants and to vote in the agreements. Okay. And to Thank you. We will enter back into open session uh for votes regarding contracts and to sign uh warrants. All right, welcome back everyone. We have convened our executive session and we're re-entering public session with the next item on the agenda being the approval of the
048Webster Education Association contract for the period of July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. I will entertain a motion to approve the contract as presented. So move second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Member Mill. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. The next item is the approval of the unit B administrators contract covering the period of July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. I will entertain a motion to approve it. So move. Second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Member. Yes. Member. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. And the next item is the approval of the custodial contract for the period of July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2028. I'll entertain a motion. So move. Second. There's a motion and
049a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. I would like to thank all of the committee members and all of the association members and the district admin team that participated in the contract negotiations. I really appreciate what a challenging budget cycle this has been for us and anytime financial situations are tight, it can impact the negotiations, but these teams stuck with it and found common ground and I think everybody was able to have their voices heard through this process. So, thank you to all of you who participated in those processes. Great. And uh the next item on the agenda is a review transfer signing of warrants bills, payroll, and vouchers. Yep. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. Second. Sorry. There's a motion in a
050second. Uh Desiree, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Meeting adjourned. Good night, everyone.